A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and… — Daniel Horan Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined… — Ron Kurtz Copy Share Image
The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a… — John Howard Copy Share Image
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image